Bookclub in a Box Discusses Kim Edwards' Novel the Memory Keeper's Daughter
Making a decision is always emotionally difficult, but when the decision means giving up a child, it becomes life altering. David Henry, as a doctor, oversees the births of his twin children, a boy and a girl. While the boy is completely healthy, the girl is born with Down syndrome. At this time in the 1960s, keeping a child at home with such a condition was rare. Edwards novel deals with the trauma, secrecy, and the consequences of David Henrys impulsive decision to give away his daughter. Her memory haunts him, his family, and the reader. Bookclub-in-a-Box deals with the moral issues and dilemmas brought forward through the thematic symboli…
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- ISBN: 978-1-897082-50-8
- EAN: 9781897082508
- Produktnummer: 3990733
- Verlag: Bookclub In A Box
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 81 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B15.0 cm x D0.8 cm 181 g
- Gewicht: 181
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Marilyn Herbert, the creator of Bookclub-in-a-Box, is a teacher, librarian, speaker and writer.Bookclub-in-a-Box has over thirty published discussion guides for contemporary fiction. They are ideal for book club members, teachers, students and all readers
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